U+102B "ါ" Myanmar Vowel Sign Tall Aa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+102B "ါ" Myanmar Vowel Sign Tall Aa is a combining diacritical mark used in the Myanmar script to represent the long vowel sound "aa," typically occurring in the final position of a syllable. It is visually distinguished from its counterpart U+102C "ာ" by its taller, more vertical shape, which is often required by certain consonant characters or for stylistic reasons in traditional orthography. As an integral component of the Burmese writing system, it modifies the inherent vowel of a consonant to create a distinct phonetic value, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard to ensure consistent digital representation and exchange of Myanmar text across different platforms and devices.

General Properties

Code Point U+102B
Version Added 5.1
Name Myanmar Vowel Sign Tall Aa
Block Myanmar
General Category Spacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ါ
HTML Hex Encoding ါ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x80 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x102B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000102B
C/C++/Java Escape \u102b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Myanmar
Script Extensions Myanmar
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Dependent
Indic Positional Category Right
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend